Food and Drink mini-series: Tamar Adler on cooking leftovers

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first bonus episode in our mini-series on food and drink. Every Wednesday, as we inch closer to summer, we'll host a fun conversation with a different expert. Lilah’s first guest is chef and food writer Tamar Adler. Twelve years ago, Tamar wrote the bestselling book An Everlasting Meal, which shared her philosophy that every meal you make can come from the meal before it. She recently expanded it into The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, an encyclopedia for cooking leftovers, with more than 1,500 little recipes. Tamar joins Lilah to talk through making second, third and even fourth meals out of what we have in our kitchens, from leftover pasta to wilting lettuce to an old deli sandwich.

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Want to stay in touch? We love hearing from you. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap.

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Links:

– Tamar’s most recent cookbook is The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z.

– Lilah also recommends her original book, An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

– Tamar’s recent piece for FT Weekend on her dream dinner party: https://on.ft.com/43pTres

– Tamar is on Instagram @tamar.e.adler

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This episode was produced by Zach St Louis. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco.

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0:00.0	F.T. Weekend Food and Drink is supported by Plymouth Gin.
0:08.0	Hello, FT. Weekend listeners. I am here to welcome you to a special mini-series of bonus episodes.
0:16.0	For the next four weeks, as we inch closer to summer, we will be publishing four short conversations
0:21.5	on a topic that's near and dear to my heart. Food and wine. For each episode, we're featuring
0:27.5	a different expert. The next one is with world-renowned Somalié André Mac. He's going to tell us
0:33.0	exactly how wine has gotten so much cooler and more accessible over the past 10 years.
0:42.3	But today, I am talking leftovers with the chef and food writer Tamar Adler.
0:43.6	I love leftovers.
0:49.3	And Tamar recently published this incredible cookbook called The Everlasting Meal Cookbook,
0:50.9	Leftovers from A to Z.
0:58.3	It basically helps you take whatever you already have in your kitchen and then make a second meal out of it or a third or a fourth meal out of it.
1:05.4	The book reads like an encyclopedia and it's organized by each type of leftover. And it has over 1,500 little recipes.
1:10.8	How to finish a bag of wilting spinach, how to finish half a burrito that's sitting in your fridge. It's kind of ridiculous and it's perfect.
1:13.7	And it follows this philosophy that runs through all of Tamar's work, which is that it's
1:17.9	better to use what you have already than to buy new every time.
1:21.4	Her writing and this cookbook have totally changed my pattern of cooking.
1:26.0	Okay, let's get into it.
1:27.1	This is FT Weekend, the podcast, special edition.
1:30.5	I'm Lila at Raptopoulos.
1:32.1	Enjoy the show.
1:38.8	Tomorrow, welcome to FT. Weekend.
1:40.5	Thank you so much for being here.
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